A Facebook posting released by the House Intelligence Committee, for a group called "Being Patriotic" is photographed in Washington, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. For candidates running in the 2018 elections, it's a race against Russia _ or other actors, perhaps _ as they try to ensure that they aren't thrown off message by misinformation campaigns like the one special counsel Robert Mueller laid out in his surprise indictment in the Russia investigation last week. AP Photo/Jon Elswick

New Research Shows "Fake News" Travels Faster And Further Than Truth Online

After studying nearly 126,000 stories shared by more than three million people on Twitter, researchers at MIT found that false or misleading stories reach more people than items that are true. These "fake news" stories also spread faster and take root on social media. We speak with Mike Wagner, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the research and what it could mean for political discourse in the United States.

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